SATEESH CH
SAP XI/PI/PO Consultant
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Experience Summary
Sateesh is working as a SAP XI/PI/PO Technical Senior Consultant and having 10 years and 1 month of experience in SAP XI/P/POI which includes 1yrs experience in SAP ABAP. Sateesh is having Solid ability to work closely with clients and internal teams to assess needs and implement solutions. He is very proficient in analyzing, developing and implementing SAP XI/PI objects (scenarios), and well exposed to activities involving in implementation, migration and Maintenance support projects. Having proven experience in full lifecycle implementation, migration/upgrade and sustain projects of XI/PI. He has good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, and team player skills.
Experience in full life cycle implementation of PI projects
Solid understanding of PI and interface development tasks
Experience with on-going post implementation support – including system monitoring and on-call support activities
Experience in handling SAP PI team as a lead
Coordinating PI support team that works on onsite-offshore model.
Demonstrated experience with large Enterprise ERP implementations in the areas of technical design specification, development, and knowledge transfer.
Worked with SAP XI 3.0, PI 7.0, PI 7.11, PI 7.31 and Process Orchestration(PO)7.4
Experience on SAP B2B Add-on AS2, EDI Separator and SFTP adapters configuration using SAP PO single stack
Experience using SAP Process Orchestration(PO)
Overall functional knowledge of SAP SD and related transactions for sales order creation, PO acknowledgement, Advanced shipment Notice, invoice generation
Worked with B2B add-on for integrating EDI systems
TPMs partners, agreements creations for all suppliers and customers
Worked with ANSIX12, EDIFACT standards.
Functional acknowledgement 997 configuration.
Working experience with NW BPM
Good knowledge on BRM
Expertise in the configuration of System Landscape Directory, Integration Repository (Enterprise Service Repository), Integration Directory and Runtime workbench.
Expertise in creating & working with collaboration profiles, design logical routings and working with collaboration agreements.
Single stack configuration for SAP PI 7.31
Java based IDOC adapter(IDOC_AEE) NWA configurations (BASIS) including Application resources and RFC destination configurations
Java stack queue prioritization configuration for SAP PI 7.31
IDOC Serialization and receiver proxy dedicated queue configuration in ECC
Proxy configuration for Java only stack SAP PI system
Working experience with B2B integration as well as A2A integration.
Designed various End-to-End Integration Scenarios among various combinations of SAP and Non-SAP systems.
Working experience for SAP PI interfaces solution, design of various interfaces.
Performance tuning of SAP PI interfaces.
Developed inbound and outbound scenarios.
Experience in the usage of third-party adapters
Strong knowledge in SAP XI/PI Adapter Engine, Advanced Adapter Engine and Adapter Configuration.
Experience in application development utilizing XI/PI – involving File, Advantco sFTP, MDM, RFC, XI, JMS, JDBC, IDOC,IDOC_AEE, SOAP, Mail, SFTP, HTTP,AS2 and EDISeparator adapters.
configuring, managing, and monitoring adapters using underlying Adapter Framework
Configuring secure file transfer using PGP encryption
Good understanding of XI/PI-Pipeline Services.
Proficient in SAP XI/PI Graphical Mapping.
Extensively used node function like “UseOneAsMany”, “SplitByValue”, ”RemoveContext”, “MapWithDefault”, “CollapsContext”, “CreatIf”, “Exist” etc.,
Experience in writing simple and advanced user defined functions (UDF), Context Handling and java mapping
Worked with SAP PI function library, JDBC Lookups, XML Payload validation, Integrated Configuration,etc.,
Have good Trouble shooting expertise using the Runtime workbench and transactions like SXMB_MONI, SXI_CACHE, and IDX5 etc.
Configured ABAP proxy, IDOC related settings like SLDCHECK, SLDAPICUST, SXMB_ADM integration engine configuration, RFC destination, Port, and partner profile..
Experience on Business Process Management (BPM) Components.
Working experience of XI/PI objects transportation from one environment to another environment using file and CTS+
Worked on EDI Adapters like AS2, Seeburger FTP (Oftp).
RFC, ALE & IDOC configuration settings and troubleshooting.
Configured automated email notifications for XI/PI errors using alerts.
Having good troubleshooting experience on alerts.
Configured alerts using Advantco monitoring tool.
Knowledge on UNIX.
Worked on SAP MM and SAP SRM-SUS integration through SAP PI using standard content provided by SAP.
Worked on SAP PI and MDM integration and SAP PI and SAP BI integration.
Hands experience with BMC Remedy tool, CCMS.net, etc.,
Skills
Competency
Modules
SAP
Web Technologies
Secure File Transformation tool
Languages
Operating Systems
Office Tools
SAP XI 3.0, SAP PI 7.0, SAP PI7.1,SAP PI7.3, Process Orchestration(PO)7.31
SAP ABAP,ALE/IDOC
JavaScript,HTML, XML
Tumbleweed smart
Java
Unix, Windows, MS-DOS
MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point
Career Profile:
Project # 1
Title Amtrak SAP COE project – Support and development
Period Sep 2015 – Till date
Client Name Amtrak (Atlanta, Georgia)
Solution Environment SAP PI
Role SAP PI Consultant
Project Description
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a partially government-funded American passenger railroad service. Its headquarters is at Washington, D.C
Responsibilities
Supporting EDI, Ariba, Success Factors, Maximo and other non-SAP integration projects.
Participates in proof of concept analyses and prototypes to ensure proposed technical integration solution can meet business requirements.
Review and approve technical specifications for PI interfaces to ensure adherence to PI standards
Perform PI development to enhance/create interfaces to support business needs
Assist with regular reviews and analysis of Incident Management data to highlight causes of frequent or high impact failures and suggest preventative action
Escalate incidents, as necessary, to the appropriate team or vendor, while actively retaining ownership of the incident on behalf of the users. Notify users of resolutions.
Solid understanding of native SAP tools for issue analysis and resolution
Participates in providing gap analysis, from a technical perspective, highlighting current state, future state, client needs, and best practices (Business).
Establishes credibility at all levels with business resources and builds problem-solving partnerships with colleagues.
System monitoring and on-call support
Supporting multiple sub projects
Performing daily support activities
Project # 2
Title Simple Green SAP EDI implementation
Period May 2015 – Aug 2015
Client Name Sunshine Makers Inc., ( California, Huntington beach)
Solution Environment SAP PO 7.4
Role SAP PO consultant
Project Description
Simple Green is a brand of cleaning products produced by Sunshine Makers, Inc.
Responsibilities
Overall functional knowledge of SAP SD and related transactions for sales order creation, PO acknowledgement, Advanced shipment Notice, invoice generation
Integrating SAP and EDI systems using SAP B2B addOn with SAP PO single stack
Technical specification preparation using functional specs
Working experience with EDI inbound and outbound interfaces
Working with ANSIX12 EDI standard with message formats 850(orders),855 PO acknowledgment, 856(shipment notice), 810 (invoice) and 824 (Application Advice) email notification.
Working with IDOC_AEE,AS2 and EDIseparator adapters
Configured partners and agreements in TPMs
Number Range Objects maintenance using cockpit tool
Technical and business systems creation in SLD
NWA configurations for IDOC communication from/to SAP PO
Transporting objects using CTS+
Project # 3
Title LATAM SAP Implementation
Period May 2014 – April 2015
Client Name EPSON America Inc.,, Long Beach (California)
Solution Environment SAP PI7.31
Role Sr.SAP PI Consultant
Project Description
Epson is committed to supporting the corporate initiatives and vision of SEC. A significant part of that vision is the “One Epson” perspective providing global views of the company’s supply chain and financial performance. To assist in achieving that vision now Epson is implementing SAP in Argentina (AR),Mexico (MX),Chile (CH),Peru (PE),Venezuela (VE),Colombia (CO),Costa Rica (CR),Ecuador (EC),Brazil (BR) etc., as part of LATAM SAP Implementation project.
Responsibilities
Analysis of functional specifications from the client and make sure that they are feasible.
Technical specification preparation from function specifications.
System landscape objects creation including product, software component version, technical system, business system
Java based IDOC adapter(IDOC_AEE) NWA configurations (BASIS) including Application resources and RFC destination configurations both in PI and ECC.
Single stack(java only stack) proxy configuration from/to SAP ECC through PI/PO
Working with IDOC_AEE, Proxy, File, JDBC, SFTP adapter configurations using ICO (integrated Configuration)
Splitting single proxy outbound message into 3 files and pushing those into 3 different folders with 3 different file name using secure ftp transfer.
Working with NWDS for creating objects
Control-m Job schedule trackers preparation and working with control-m team to setup SAP jobs.
Parameter binding configuration and value mapping group creation and using in mapping
Objects transportation from development to quality server
Integration testing support
Project # 4
Title North America SAP Implementation
Period July 2013 – April 2014
Client Name EPSON America Inc.,, Long Beach( California)
Solution Environment SAP PI7.31
Role Sr.SAP PI Consultant
Project Description
Epson America, Inc. (Epson) is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation (SEC), a global technology company. Epson America Inc. is headquartered in Long Beach, California.
Epson is committed to supporting the corporate initiatives and vision of SEC. A significant part of that vision is the “One Epson” perspective providing global views of the company’s supply chain and financial performance. To assist in achieving that vision Epson is implementing SAP.
Responsibilities
Understand project requirements given by client and map business requirements to SAP solution, both technically as well as functionally.
Planning, designing and developing integration strategy and solutions using SAP PI.
Implement solution on SAP PI system to ensure it fulfills all the customer requirements.
Technical specification preparation from function specification.
IDoc serialization configuration
Queue prioritization configuration for proxy receiver interfaces
Java stack queue’s prioritization configuration in SAP PI7.31
User defined payload search configuration for both IE and AE
Secure file transfer from PI along with PGP encryption
Java only stack message processing configurations for proxies and IDOCs
Working with File to JDBC with trigger file, File (content conversion) to proxy, File to file, JMS to Proxy, proxy to sFTP and File to IDOC_AEE
Wiring User defined functions using java code.
Business system, technical system creation in System Landscape Directory(SLD)
Involved in end to end user testing
Understand various business scenarios required for unit and integration testing
Fixing bugs during integration testing reported by business IT team
Transportation of objects from one environment to another environments
Troubleshooting of SAP XI/PI issues
Experience with on-going post implementation support
System monitoring and on-call support
Project # 5
Title General Motors
Period July 2012 – June 2013
Client Name General Motors, Detroit (Michigan)
Solution Environment SAP PI 7.0 and SAP PI7.3
Role Onsite co-ordinator(Onsite Lead)
Project Description
General Motors Company, commonly known as GM (General Motors Corporation before 2009), is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
Responsibilities
Participates in proof of concept analyses and prototypes to ensure proposed technical integration solution can meet business requirements.
Review and approve technical specifications for PI interfaces to ensure adherence to PI standards
Perform PI development to enhance/create interfaces to support business needs
Assist with regular reviews and analysis of Incident Management data to highlight causes of frequent or high impact failures and suggest preventative action
Escalate incidents, as necessary, to the appropriate team or vendor, while actively retaining ownership of the incident on behalf of the users. Notify users of resolutions.
Solid understanding of native SAP tools for issue analysis and resolution
Participates in providing gap analysis, from a technical perspective, highlighting current state, future state, client needs, and best practices (Business).
Establishes credibility at all levels with business resources and builds problem-solving partnerships with colleagues.
System monitoring and on-call support
Experience with on-going post implementation support
Supporting multiple sub projects
Handled PI, and smart application teams from onsite as a lead
Coordinating PI support team that works on onsite-offshore model.
Working with urgent break fixes/changes through Request for Change (RFC) Process.
Enhancements for existing interfaces through Request for Change (RFC) and Change Advisory Board (CAB) process.
Status meeting calls with offshore and onshore team.
Project # 6
Title Zimmer
Period July 2011 – July 2012
Client Name Zimmer Inc., Indiana (Warsaw)
Solution Environment SAP XI 3.0 and SAP PI 7.11
Role SAP PI Technical Lead
Project Description
Zimmer designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopaedic reconstructive, spinal and trauma devices, dental implants, and related orthopaedic surgical products. The firm is headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana.
Responsibilities
Worked as SAP Integration Architect for fine tuning existing landscape and to build new interfaces.
Studied the existing interfaces flow and suggested the best design approach.
Done Proof of Concept by migrating few interfaces into PI7.11 to check the feasibility before actual upgrade kicked off.
Configured advanced adapter engine for all applicable cased to optimize performance
Creating the transports requests and validating all the transports before transporting them to QA/Prod
Transporting objects from one environment to another using CTS+ and .tpz file transport.
Worked with MDM to ECC & MDM to BI integration through SAP PI for customer master (DEBMAS), material master (MATMAS) and vendor master (CREMAS).
Configured SAP to JDE & JDE to SAP for purchase requisition (PR), purchase order (PO) and goods receipt (GR) integration through SAP PI.
Payroll data integration from SAP HR to 3rd party servers using SAP XI interfaces were configured.
Configured automatic email notifications from XI/PI using alerts for queue errors and tRFC call errors.
Configured alerts for Integration engine and adapter engine errors for all interfaces.
Working on enhancements of existing interfaces and maintain documentation for all changes.
ABAP stack monitoring includes - Inbound and outbound queues monitoring, tRFC calls monitoring and cache monitoring.
Runtime Workbench monitoring includes – component monitoring, message monitoring and java stack cache monitoring.
Recording XI monitoring logs in excel tracker on daily basis.
Working with bug fixing / tickets of production issues.
Tracking the status of tickets using BMC Remedy tool.
Used XPI Inspector tool for analyzing XI/PI errors.
Woking with MDM, Proxy, IDOC, RFC, SOAP and Plain HTTP
Managing team members, assigning work, preparing interface design and estimating the interfaces/ efforts.
Project # 7
Title TTL SAP Implementation – Development Project
Period May 2010 – June 2011
Client Name Tata Teleservices Ltd.,
Solution Environment SAP PI7.1
Role SAP PI Architect
Project Description
Tata Teleservices Limited(TTL) spearheads the Tata Group’s presence in the telecom sector. Tata Teleservices Limited now also has a presence in the GSM space, through its joint venture with NTT DOCOMO of Japan. TTL used SAP PI7.1 to integrate SAP and non-SAP systems for customer master, vendor master, material master and SRM –MM integration.
Responsibilities
Configured SAP MM and SRM-SUS integration using SAP PI 7.1 for Procurement (SUS) and Sourcing Enhancements (SRM).
Worked with predefined content for MM and SRM integration.
MDM to ECC and DB integrations were done using SAP PI7.1
Prepared technical specification documents.
Configured Integration Repository and Integration Directory objects.
Worked on proxy, IDOC, file, JDBC, RFC and MDM interfaces.
Created required technical systems, business systems in system landscape directory.
Worked on JDBC lookups.
Proxy generation and proxy related configuration settings, like RFC destinations, SLDCHECK, SLDCUSTAPI and SXMB_ADM integration engine configuration, were done.
Idoc configurations –Creating Model View and adding message types using distribution model, RFC destination, Port, Partner profile- were created in ECC system as well as in PI system as required.
Worked with SLD objects transport, IR and ID objects transport.
Project # 8
Title Celestica– Development and Support
Period Sep 2009 – April 2010
Client Name Celestica
Solution Environment SAP PI 7.0
Role SAP PI Integration Consultant
Project Description
Celestica Inc.(TSX: CLS NYSE: CLS) is a multinational electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It provides a range of services and solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the communications, computing, consumer and industrial, aerospace and defence sectors.
Responsibilities
Involved in new interfaces development, enhancement and bug fixing of XI / PI interfaces.
Development of Detail design documents (Technical Specifications) based on the Functional specifications.
Configured B2B (Party) and A2A (Service without party) scenarios.
Involved in enhancement of IDOC to JDBC scenario.
Developed IDOC to AS2 scenario with status 05 or status 06 back to R/3 system.
Developed IDOC to XML file scenario without using IR components.
Dynamic file name is configured based on idoc number in receiver file communication channel using file name schema.
Worked with Seeburger modules for configuring EDI (VAN mail box using FTP) to IDOC interface.
Necessary certificates were deployed in J2EE Visual Administrator tool.
Worked with firewall team to setup firewall settings for sending messages from Celestica server to mercury gate server (3rd party).
Monitoring IDOC in WE02, IDX5 and Imported Meta data using IDX2.
Sometimes messaging queues were processing manually using SMQ1 and SMQ2.
Prepared IR&ID transport requirement documents, proposed solutions documents.
Unit test plan documents prepared and done end to end testing as per the requirement.
Performed regression testing using detroubulator tool for all the interfaces to find mapping errors and fixed all identified errors.
Project # 9
Title Nestle XI 3B - Migration Project
Period Feb 2009 – Aug 2009
Client Name Nestle
Solution Environment SAP PI 7.0
Role SAP PI Integration Sr.Developer
Project Description
Nestlé is the largest food and beverage company. Nestle Globe is the largest SAP Development project. This is migration project. All interfaces are migrated from Mercator to PI 7.0.The Interfaces are done for the regions including AMS(U.S Region),AOA(Asia and Africa),EUR(Europe Zone).
Responsibilities
Reviewing Functional Specifications and meet the Functional Contact of the Object to gain understanding of the requirement.
Involved in preparing the Technical Specification document from the Functional Specification document.
Prepared deployment sheet and Interface details from Functional specification.
Analyzing the existing interfaces in Mercator and developed in PI 7.0.
Reviewed technical specifications prepared by peer.
Worked on Multiple IDocs to Flat file, Flat file to Flat file, EANCOM(EDI) File to IDOc, IDOC to File, File to IDOC, File to multiple IDOCs,etc.,
Developed interface for collecting Multiple IDocs to Fixed length flat file.
Worked with BPM for collecting multiple IDocs and sent single file to target system.
Developed inbound and outbound IDOC scenarios.
Written simple and advanced User Defined Functions as per requirement.
Worked with dynamic file name generation based on payload of sender.
Extensively used Node Functions like useoneasmany, splitbyvalue, removecontext, mapwithdefault, collapscontext, createif etc.,
Receiver Determination for the Configured senders using Extended Receiver Determination by Routing Cockpit Maintenance which is customized by Nestle.
Worked with XLink (A tool provided by SAP) for configuring SOAP adapters.
Worked with seeburger modules.
Developed outbound/inbound interfaces, Integration scenario, Mapping Objects, Message Interfaces and Message Types using Integration Repository.
Configured Communication channel, service without Parties, Sender/Receiver agreement, Receiver determination and Interface Determination using Integration Directory.
Worked with runtime work bench components like Component monitoring, Message monitoring etc.,
Prepared UTP (Unit Test Plan) for developed objects and configured business systems (for dev, QA, RT) in SLD.
Transported objects using file transportation system.
Project # 10
Title Atlas Copco – Support and Development
Period July 2008 – Jan 2009
Client Name Atlas Copco
Solution Environment SAP XI 3.0
Role SAP XI Developer
Project Description
Atlas Copco is a world leading provider of industrial productivity solutions. The products and services range from compressed air and gas equipment, generators, construction and mining equipment, industrial tools and assembly systems to related aftermarket and rental.
Responsibilities
Analysis of functional specifications from the Client and make sure that they are feasible.
Prepared Technical specification and Interface details from Functional specification.
Configured adapters like File, JDBC, IDOC adapters.
Worked with Integration Repository, Integration Directory and runtime workbench.
Created and working with collaboration profiles, Collaboration agreements and setting of Logical routing objects.
Design and Development of XI Interfaces according to the requirement and configuring the System Landscape Directory.
Monitored scenarios using runtime work bench.
Monitoring XI Design/configuration Errors and resolve them by timely basis.
Written user defined and advanced functions as per requirements.
Prepared Unit Test Plan (UTP) & Unit Test Results (UTR) after finishing the Interface review and Unit test.
Configured Interface determination condition for executing particular mapping based on condition of input data.
Transported object using file based system up to quality.
Project # 11
Title Program 42 – Development Project
Period April 2008 – June 2008
Client Name CorpTech (Queensland Government)
Solution Environment SAP XI 3.0
Role SAP XI Developer
Project Description
CorpTech is an agency of the Shared Services Initiative (SSI) and part of Queensland Treasury responsible for the delivery of the shared services solution (based on SAP). CorpTech is committed to providing whole-of-Government corporate applications and systems support to the Shared Service Providers These corporate applications include: Human Resources (HR) (including payroll), Finance (including procurement), Document and Records Management. SAP PI is for integrating their sap and 3rd party systems.
Responsibilities
Involved in preparing the Technical Specification document from the Functional Specification document.
Configured file scenarios like file to file.
Developed outbound/inbound interfaces, Integration scenario, Mapping Objects, Message Interfaces and Message Types using Integration Repository.
Configured collaboration profiles, logical routing objects and collaboration agreements.
Configured various adapters for different business Scenarios.
Preparation of Unit test plan and documents
Project # 12
Title HBI – Development Project
Period December 2007 – March 2008
Client Name Hanes Brand Inc.,
Solution Environment SAP PI 7.0
Role SAP PI Developer
Project Description
Hanes brands Inc. is a global consumer goods company with more than a century of history and a portfolio of leading apparel, which was spun off from Sara Lee Corporation in 2006. Based in Winston-Salem, N.C.,
As part of implementation of SAP standard Apparel and Footwear solution they used SAP XI/PI for integrating their sap and 3rd party system.
Responsibilities
Prepared Technical specification and Interface details from Functional specification.
Developed JMS to Multiple IDocs interface completely.
Imported SAP Meta data (IDOC, etc) for designing various scenarios.
Defined Data Types, Message Types, Interface Mappings, Message Mappings and Integration Scenarios.
Set up the Communication Channels based on the business scenarios.
Performed Receiver & Interface Determinations and Sender/Receiver Agreements.
Used node functions like createif, exist, removecontext, splitbyvalue, mapwithdefault, collapscontext, etc.,
Design and Development of XI Interfaces according to the requirement and configured the System Landscape Directory.
Prepared Unit test plan and documents.
Project # 13
Title Abbott Labs HRT – Development Project
Period April 2006 – Nov 2007
Client Name Abbott Labs
Solution Environment SAP XI 3.0
Role SAP PI Developer
Project Description
Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets products. Abbott is Headquartered in north suburban Chicago. Abbott labs implemented SAP XI for integrating HR department with their SAP and non-SAP systems.
Responsibilities
Involved in preparing the Technical Specification document from the Functional Specification document
Developed interfaces with high complexity in project along with unit testing
Developed 7 interfaces completely mainly on ABAP Proxy to File with Content conversion and ABAP proxy to HTTP
Worked on Integration Builder (Integration Repository, Integration Directory, and Runtime Workbench)
Worked with ABAP proxy scenarios
Worked with FTPs with certificate configuration
Proxy related admin settings were configured
Prepared Unit Test Plan (UTP) & Unit Test Results (UTR)
Business system and technical system configurations in SLD
Written User Defined Functions as per requirement of objects in project
Transferring the developed objects from the development Server to Quality server
Prepared the transport check list documents